FREE TOPIC RELATED TO YOUR CAREER: obstetric violence

In this essay we will review and criticize how births develop and which things and behaviors can we change so at the end this process would be less invasive and involve less consequences (mentally and physically) for the women and body with the ability to get pregnant. For this issue we have two scopes; the education before the birth and the labor.
With this propose we are going to introduce and  define a new concept: obstetric violence.  

Obstetric violence is defines as the appropriation of the body and reproductive processes of women by personnel from health, which is expressed in a dehumanizing treatment, bringing with it loss of autonomy and ability to freely decide on their bodies and sexuality.

Chile is one of the countries with 47% of the birth are by cesarean section, while the OMS recommends only 12%. In other word, a lot of this intervention in the country are not necessary and does not obey medical recommendation but other things like price, time or simply the doctor comfort. 

There some cases for example of women that have died after this interventions because the medical personal ignores their feelings and perceptions of their own bodies, justifying their aches as stress, depression or their hormonal instability due to the labor.

As can be seen, the women in the labor many times is seen as a person with no knowledge and no power of decision, so the doctors and nurses ignore them and their feelings continually, this behavior can put the mother and the baby in risk, besides it can be consider as gender violence, also because as we all know most of the obstetricians are men.